• Bringing of Silkworm Eggs to Khotan, one of the Chinese antiquities on display at the British Museum.
  • The British Museum and British Library were originally one institution, however, the Library has since moved and occupies a different location.
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  • British Museum, in London, comprehensive national museum with particularly outstanding holdings in archaeology and ethnography.
  • While Toronto’s own Royal Ontario Museum has an extensive collection from Egypt, the British museum’s extensive collection is truly spectacular.
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  • British Museum (Est 1753): World's Greatest Collection of Antiquities, Decorative Arts Illustrating the History of Civilization.
  • When the British Museum was opened in 1759 it was the first national museum to be open to the public anywhere in the world.
  • In the 1830s, the museum began to welcome in more and more visitors, and today more than six million people explore the British Museum each year.